Favored Backtalk is undefeated in three starts after motoring home on the outside of a closely grouped field to win the $150,000 Sanford Stakes (gr. II) for 2-year-olds by a neck over Enumerate at ...

Peter Goldmark’s surprise decision to end his bid for a third term in office as state lands commissioner leaves the race open for the key position that leads the Department of Natural Resources.

Mother Nature helped make the case for change at the top of the state Department of Natural Resources. Devastating slides off clear-cut forest land in Lewis County in December 2007 washed away our ...

This story was reported in collaboration with Austin Jenkins of public radio’s Northwest News Network. On June 8, Washington’s Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark flew to Vancouver, B.C., for ...